Alban Berg and the BBC

Nicholas Chadwick

Abstract

EDWARD CLARK (1888-1962), who was a programme planner with the BBC from 1927
to 1936, had been introduced to Arnold Schoenberg after a performance of the latter's
symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande in Berlin in 1910. He was thereafter an ardent
champion of the music of Schoenberg (whose pupil he became in 1911) and also of that of
Alban Berg and Anton von Webern.